Category Archive: Dave Balch

May 2012

• Monday, May 07, 2012
  Coping Strategy: Imagine

  By Dave Balch I was driving through the fog in our mountain community in Southern California in 35-degree temperatures when a forestry (more...)

• Monday, May 07, 2012
  Coping Strategy: Imagine

  By Dave Balch I was driving through the fog in our mountain community in Southern California in 35-degree temperatures when a forestry (more...)

April 2012

• Monday, April 23, 2012
  Protect Yourself!

  By Dave Balch I’m going to tell you one of the best things and one of the worst things that can come out of a serious illness: (more...)

• Thursday, April 19, 2012
  Beating the Odds

  By Dave Balch April 22 is a big day for us. We met on April 22, we were married on April 22, and my wife, Chris, was diagnosed with (more...)

March 2012

• Monday, March 26, 2012
  Ya Gotta Ask

  By Dave Balch The e-mail came just yesterday. A friend had a friend that had been trying for 20 years (that’s not a typo… twenty (more...)

• Monday, March 19, 2012
  Emergency Room Survival

  By Dave Balch In the 10 years that my wife and I have been dealing with her cancer, I have seen more than my share of emergency rooms. (more...)

• Monday, March 05, 2012
  What We Can Learn from the Costa Disaster

  By Dave Balch I like to think that we can learn from many of life’s events, both good and bad. The recent sinking of the Costa (more...)

February 2012

• Wednesday, February 08, 2012
  Keep Your Eye on the Ball

  By Dave Balch When I was about 11 I joined little league and played baseball. Well, that’s not exactly true… I TRIED to play (more...)

January 2012

• Monday, January 23, 2012
  Caregiving Defined

  By Dave Balch It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, whether it’s clearing snow from the porch or running a marathon, it is always a (more...)

• Friday, January 06, 2012
  Using My Wife’s Head

  By Dave Balch This isn’t the first time I've harped on trying to find the good in a bad situation, and it probably won’t be the (more...)

December 2011

• Monday, December 19, 2011
  “It’s the Caregiver’s Job”… Or Is It?

  By Dave Balch During a recent program in Utah, I was talking about (as I do in every time I speak) how difficult it was for me when (more...)

November 2011

• Monday, November 28, 2011
  Making Good Holiday Choices

  By Dave Balch Here we go again with all the usual phrases and observations: "Where did the time go?" and "Holidays are stressful" and on (more...)

• Thursday, November 10, 2011
  Choose Your Battles

  By Dave Balch One of the most important things that we have gained from our cancer experience is appreciation of what is really (more...)

October 2011

• Tuesday, October 25, 2011
  The Golden Rule is Wrong

  From a very early age, the Golden Rule is pounded into our heads: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," or something like (more...)

• Tuesday, October 25, 2011
  The Golden Rule is Wrong

  From a very early age, the Golden Rule is pounded into our heads: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," or something like (more...)

• Thursday, October 13, 2011
  When It's Wrong to be Right

  By Dave Balch Several years ago following a presentation to a group of cancer patients and caregivers, a man approached me and wanted to (more...)

• Thursday, October 13, 2011
  When It's Wrong to be Right

  By Dave Balch Several years ago following a presentation to a group of cancer patients and caregivers, a man approached me and wanted to (more...)

September 2011

• Tuesday, September 27, 2011
  The Power of Your Own Words

  By Dave Balch This may come as a surprise, but there is someone who listens carefully to every word you say, even when you are speaking (more...)

• Tuesday, September 27, 2011
  The Power of Your Own Words

  By Dave Balch This may come as a surprise, but there is someone who listens carefully to every word you say, even when you are speaking (more...)

• Thursday, September 15, 2011
  Change Doesn't Change

  Part of the stress of cancer, at least for us, was going to unfamiliar places and finding our way around, learning where to park, how long (more...)

• Thursday, September 15, 2011
  Change Doesn't Change

  Part of the stress of cancer, at least for us, was going to unfamiliar places and finding our way around, learning where to park, how long (more...)

• Wednesday, September 07, 2011
  You WILL Forget

  When my wife, Chris, was in the middle of her chemo treatments, a woman came to our table in a restaurant and said that she, too, had gone (more...)

August 2011

• Tuesday, August 23, 2011
  Fixing the Fix-It Stress

  I’m a guy. I like to fix things. Whenever there is something wrong in the house or the family, my gut reaction is to try to fix it. (more...)